Our Polar Flight:
Subtitle: The Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight
By: by Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth and other members of the expedition. Illustrated from photographs taken on the expedition. --
Contributors: Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Published: 1925
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Aeronautics; Flights
Description: In 1925 Roald Amundsen attempted to fly to the North Pole with five others in two aircrafts, the N24 and the N25. They started from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, on 21 May 1925 and flew side by side to 87°43' N, where they landed on leads in the drift ice after more than eight hours in the air. N24 had been damaged on take-off and it was now obvious that the plane could not be flown again. The six men struggled for 3½ weeks to create a take-off strip on the drift ice. On 15 June Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen managed to get N25 into the air with all six men on board. They landed off the north coast of Svalbard and were able to hitch a ride back to Ny-Ålesund with a small ship which was in the area by chance. There were huge celebrations when the men returned to the capital.